• ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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    5 days ago

    For like 3 hours, it was glorious as my friend group wondered what part of the Cybertruck could have spontaneously combusted.

    Then video came out and there’s colorful lights and we still weren’t sure.

    It took a official report before we accepted it was a car bomb.

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      5 days ago

      I’m still not sure if it was an intentional car bomb or if he was transporting fireworks to use later that night and something about the car set them off.

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      5 days ago

      All I read is the truck bed was filled with flammables. ’ Is there a believable source for

      A. Whether the driver started the fire or it was sparked on accident.

      B. If it was not intentional, what was the actual target?

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        5 days ago

        With military experience he’d know a little about fuel air explosives. Powerful fireworks are sufficient for making such a bomb, though they’re technically difficult (you need to trigger the second trigger explosion after the first has spread out the fuel enough to detonate)

        I think he was expecting (in Marvin the Martian’s words) an earth shattering kaboom but didn’t do it right

        Done right the amount of fuel would have done serious damage - all the energy released in the fire would have been released instantaneously, with a shock wave

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        5 days ago

        Some surprisingly low end explosives for a decorated green beret guy with his level of access. Fireworks and petrol cans?